Long Baffled Poems
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Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
baffled, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
baffled, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To EntropySalvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
baffled, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
baffled, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Poems IiiPoems about Poems III
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes?dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but...
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Categories:
baffled, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
baffled, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
baffled, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
A Lovers ToilOnce upon a time there was a heartless man, he didn’t care for others and compassion he couldn’t understand
His heart was cold there was no love inside, although to the outside world he carried on...
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Categories:
baffled, fantasy, heartbreak, i love you, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poets IPoems about Poets I
The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch
for Leslie Mellichamp
The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged keyed kites—amazed,
in dream of shocks that suddenly came true ...
but...
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Categories:
baffled, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 28The elves left separately and reconvened in the safe room. If Rian was aware of Joulupukki's presence in the Village, they did not want to give away what magic he had. When...
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Categories:
baffled, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Remain SaneDo you recognize me anymore?
Do you realize that my heart is sore?
Let me memorize your heart’s melody
Let me see right through your…melancholy…
Do you ever wave goodbye to yesterday?
Can’t bear the thought of you leaving me...
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Categories:
baffled, deep, depression, desire, feelings, life, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Fabrication"How Do I Feel Today"
written out of depravity of sleep, of self assurance of happiness
written out of love and vulnerability
I was so sure, aware; I had a plan!
but as the case with all my well...
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Categories:
baffled, how i feel,
Form:
Bio
The Dancing: the Return ThereofPrelude
After banishing my foe off to hell
The Lord took pity on my soul
And returned it to my undead shell
Again, I was alive and whole
But the consequences of a second chance
Meant that I would have...
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Categories:
baffled, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Theatre of the Absurd - FusionGodot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!
...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a notice
Announcing a brand new play
A fusion of two classics
Waiting for...
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Categories:
baffled, funny, humor, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Free verse
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly ObsessionMine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...
As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a
psychologically checkered past
loom large recalling
tragic storied days of mein kampf.
Circa early nineteen seventies:
As a mere slip of a...
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Categories:
baffled, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Drawing My Own ConclusionsI'd been caught up in the middle, of one of those awful days,
When nothing seems to go right, with glitches and delays.
I was having a rough day at work, and the boss was now irate;
And...
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Categories:
baffled, adventure, fantasy, humor, imagery, life, magic, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a child
Soothed you were by twinkling stars
In a crib that faced...
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Categories:
baffled, anti bullying, art, beauty, death, depression, sad,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord -Part 2Later that day, I fell upon my knees and prayed to God fervently,
“Lord God, with us, among us, I am ever grateful, and I am ever joyous,
I thank You for the gift of life,
And the...
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Categories:
baffled, appreciation, beautiful, bible, evil, identity, wisdom, world,
Form:
Narrative
Swtor Enthusiasts Strike Along With Signal Mistake WorriesBioware custom Bill Wallace (incredible! ) offers simply set up the warm article detailing (within excellent fine detail) a few forthcoming mechanised ramifications for that Aged Republic's Heritage Program. For individuals who are not within...
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Categories:
baffled, computer-internet, people, may, people, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
What I'M Gobsmacks, Bamboozles and All This Confuses MeWhat I'm Gobsmacks, Bamboozles and All This Confuses Me
What I'm Gobsmacks, Bamboozles and All This Confuses Me
...
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Categories:
baffled, absence, analogy, character, endurance, grandparents, muse, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Glue of GoshenMy dreams became galling
To my fratricidal brothers
My father's favor appalling
Birthed from different mothers
"The master of dreams is coming."
Down the cistern they tossed me
Their plan to kill me numbing
My dreams engulfed in irony
Reuben discouraged their plan
They...
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Categories:
baffled, betrayal, bible, brother, dream, faith, family, god,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Courtship With Deadly ObsessionsMine courtship with deadly obsession(s)
still indelibly scored within
windmills of my mind
this July 22nd, 2020.
Imagine yours truly post pubescence
(no matter ye never met me)
all that life in front of me
argh... precious time squandered
abustle with rattle...
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Categories:
baffled, 6th grade, 7th grade, age, grave, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Lock and KeyTimothy had always been a man of laughing joy and conversation
-Friendship dialogue communication -
But now there was silence but for...
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Categories:
baffled, future,
Form:
Free verse
New Life, Inspiration From a Gifted RevelationNew Life, Inspiration From A Gifted Revelation
Methought I heard a fallen angel call
Forth from a forest of beautiful falls
With lakes and rivers and sweet mountain view
Through the thick undergrowth I waded through
Under blue sky...
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Categories:
baffled, angel, art, blessing, creation, faith, life, recovery
Form:
Narrative
Revenge of the Altar Boy"Drip, drip" said the mildew-stained stone cellar walls of St. Peter's cathedral,
Where a goblet of wine dripped into a priest dressed in robes violet and medieval.
Down into the crypts beneath the church's alter he had...
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Categories:
baffled, abuse, child abuse, corruption, encouraging, endurance, fear,
Form:
Couplet